source language

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

source language (plural source languages)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) The language from which a translation is done.
2. (computing) The language of the source code to be compiled.

Synonyms

• (linguistics, translation studies): SL

Antonyms

• target language

Derived terms

• source text

Translations

language from which a translation is done

• Catalan: llengua font f, llengua d'origen f, llengua objecte f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原語 / 原语 (zh) (yuányǔ)

• Danish: kildesprog n
• Dutch: brontaal (nl) f
• Faroese: keldumál n
• Finnish: lähdekieli (fi)
• French: langue de départ f, langue source f
• German: Ausgangssprache (de) f, Quellsprache (de) f
• Greek: γλώσσα πηγής f (glóssa pigís), γλώσσα-πηγή f (glóssa-pigí)
• Hungarian: forrásnyelv (hu)
• Italian: lingua di partenza f
• Japanese: 起点言語 (きてんげんご, kiten gengo)
• Korean: 기점 언어(起點言語) (gijeom eoneo)
• Polish: język źródłowy m inan
• Romanian: limbă originală f, limbă sursă f
• Russian: язы́к оригина́ла m (jazýk originála)
• Spanish: idioma fontanal​/​original m, lengua fontanal​/​original f
• Swedish: källspråk n
• Ukrainian: мо́ва оригіна́лу f (móva oryhinálu)

language of the source code to be compiled

• Faroese: keldumál n
• Finnish: lähdekieli (fi)
• Irish: teanga fhoinseach f
• Polish: język źródłowy m inan